Friday, 20 September 2013

Hello,here is a canvas I made using some of Dusty Attics amazing chipboard pieces...

These are the pieces I used on the canvas....

Flutterbies 3 pack DA0389

Grass Cluster DA0660

Heart Flourish DA0275

Bookman ABC DA0666

I started this canvas by doing some stencil work using molding paste. I used the 12 x 12 Butterfly Meadow & 12 x 12 Confetti Doodling Template from TCW. Once that dried, I tried my best at getting the colors of the background in the photo. I layered & layered so much LuminArt",Tattered Angels or whatever I had that looked like it would be the right color, that I finally had to quit. I don't even remember what I used (LOL). On the Dusty Attic Chipboard, I worked with the colors in Jacobi's dress.On the heart flourish I used Bolivian Blue & Razzleberry LuminArte', I also applied crackle over the Razzleberry. I also used the same on the butterfly & alpha, but on the alpha I used some gold perfect pearls. Here are some closups of detail.....

On the grass cluster I used Olive Vine LuminArt', then rubbed in some Viva Gold Metallic Rub on to the stem & the grass part. On the head of the grass I first applied gold perfect pearls,then once that dried I glued on some gold micro beads.....

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Here is a Dusty layout of my daughter, this is my favourite photo of her, I took it many years ago when she was about five, I love rose in her hat, and have used the colours in the hat for my layout.

I have started with a base of texture paste and added two chippie branches and a stencil, once dry, coat the lot with gesso to form a great base for Glimmer mist sprays

To create the mottled effect on the vine flourish, first paint it with gesso, when dry dab with crushed olive and peeled paint Distress stains. Allow to dry and cover with dimensional magic. The trick is to swirl around the dimensional magic and scrape the distress stain with the tip of the nozzle. So when it dries you have this swirled effect.

Dusty flowers are sprayed with glimmer mist, then a small amount of spray adhesive, sprinkle a little white glitter and you have jazzed up your flowers.

The fern leaves I have just barely swiped with gesso and used them as is, this is a great contrast to the heavily altered chip.

The little bird houses are simply painted with gesso, coloured with Copic makers and covered in Dimensional Magic. The little mushrooms are painted with gesso, red ink is applied to the tops, and I have used a white paint pen to mark out the spots, cover with dimensional magic to seal.

To make the faux opal, fill a trinket finding with black enamel accents, carefully place chips of glitter and mica shards into the enamel accents. Allow to dry, and cover with Dimensional magic. I love this effect and use it all the time with different colours and glitter glues.

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Hi everyone! It's me, Gabrielle here with you today sharing another 'off the page' project with you using Dusty Attic chipboard, Dusty Blooms and Dusty in Color paints. I've had these cute little 3D Birdhouse chippies in my stash for some time now and have finally had an opportunity to use them! If you are like me, you always need lots of trinket boxes to house your scrapping stash and photos. Personally, I think if you are going to have boxes sitting around you may as well make them look pretty right?

These little birdhouses where so easy to put together I just traced out the pieces on some pretty patterned paper (I used Maja Design papers from the Sofiero collection, and some from the Vintage Spring Basics colleciton). Once I had my patterned papers glued to the panels and just glued each of the houses together. Then the fun stuff started....dressing up the little houses with tiny picket fences, grasses, scrolls, key holes, branches, birdies, topiaries, vines, bricks and blooms.

And since it's a box, you dont't want to forget the back since it can be seen from all angles! Here I used the 'Elegant Flourish Small' chippie and a cameo to pretty up the back of the box. I also added extra blooms, grasses and picket fences to the backs of the houses. Here are the Dusty Attic supplies I used to make this page: